Aug 29, 2009

Alcazar was not infact Andreas first band he was a member of the group Stage 4. They featured three other famous Melodifestivalen singers in Sweden; Peter Jöback, Lisa Nilsson and Lizette Pålsson.Here is a rare clip of Stage 4 check to check back in 1989 -

Here we find Andrea's debut in Melodifestivalen 1997. With a hit ballad "Driver Dagg Faller Regn"wrote by Alexander Bard it came 2nd with a total of 48 points...not long afterwards Alcazar was born in Stockholm.

Aug 25, 2009

Well its been in the Repair Shop for a few weeks, but now the clutch is fixedOur Melodifestivalen TIME MACHINE is again whizzing thu space n Timenext stop is that victory moment in 1995...

as Jan gave back the flowers! was it the wrong colour! No, t'was to do his reprise

Jan Johansen has just put out a brand new CD just in Norway for some reason-Minnen ( Memories ) gasp! Thankfully its 'not' showtunes in swedish. (sigh) More a Greatestsong collection spanning his career to date. With seven new swedish songs

The collection has on it 'Ingenmannsland' which he sang in Melodifestivalen 2002.

Aug 23, 2009

Eda-InesEtti is from Haapsalu, Estonia - she is a Big celebrity in her homeland, and known mainly in scandinavia due to her participation in the Eurovision Song Contest.

In 2000, Ines sung her own song “Once in a Lifetime” she had been tipped for what would have been a famous victory, but in the end came 4th. As Denmark finished flying the wings of victory that year.

In a strange twist of fate, one of Ines own backing singers, Tanel Padar, together with Dave Benton represented Estonia the next year-this time the duo stormed to victory with a song “Everybody”, Estonia then became the 1st former Eastern Bloc country to stage the Eurovision Song Contest in 2002.Then in 2003 there seemed every chance that Ines would once again be Estonia’s artist for Eurovision, as she had reportedly been lined up to sing “Runaway”, in Eurolaul, the Estonian national selection contest for Eurovision.

Then she pulled out at the last moment, apparently concluding that one appearance at the Eurovision was enough!. Given the unfortunate timing, an experienced Swedish star, Anna Sahlene, took her place and performed “Runaway” the song became the Eurolaul winner. The song went on to finish in 3th place for Estonia.

Its rather surprising that Ines has since gone on to be known in her homeland as ‘Miss Eurovision’ - mainly from taking on the role of spokeswoman during the voting procedure, to becoming a host presenter of Eurolaul back in 2005.

Ines’s follow-up album sung in Estonian, '15 magamata ööd', was a huge success back in 2004. The title-track of the record brought her the second “Female Artist of the Year” at the Estonian Music Awards.

Ines’ in 2005 formed her own band to produce her next stab at Eurovision glory, the wonderful song “Iseendale”. The song came a close second to the winner “Through My Window”, performed by the Sandra Oxenryd. “Iseendale” . Ines’ third Eurolaul entry was the song entitled “In Good and Bad” in Eurolaul 2007, the song failed to make the grade for Eurovision 2007. Yet her new album 'Kustutame vead' earned another nomination for the Female Artist of the Year.

Ines today maintains a high profile with the Estonian public. Martin Saar - a controversial young New York artist, who remained her boyfreind for 3 years.

In 2008, the golden couple of the Estonia media' broke up. Since then Ines has found new love in a Portuguese guy called Francesco. Currently Ines is working on her fifth studio album set to release in summer or later this year.

We are hoping this may well bring us a new song set for Schlager Glory- and Ines the girlwho gave us Once in a Lifetime' now enters our Euro-Schlager Hall of Fame ...

Its taken a while but Sarah Dawn Finer has a follow-up to 'Moving On'the song from Melodifestivalen 2009 which was for me the biggest grower...The same maybe said for her follow-up 'Standing Strong' + the video is rather good

Since 1983, songwriter Henrik Wikström has written 20 entries for Melodifestivalen. It was Henrik behind Måns Zelmerlöw's hit"Cara Mia"as well as Carola's "Evighet"andBWO's"Lay your love on me"

Henrik we have seen many times sat among the songwriters in Melodifestivalen ( who can miss him! ) it has been revealed Henrik together with Alexander Bard is working on a new Electro Rock Band Gravitonas, this new group will feature the vocals of Andreas Öhrn. As a frontman Andreas is rather theatrical and have something à la Freddie Mercury (see him below). Alexander has assured us BWO will very much continue, and this is a new side project to his band.

- Henrik is a trained music teacher. During a recent interview Henry told of how he has a first idea for a song that can come to him in different ways: In fact its happened that Henrik wakes in the middle of the night with a melody in his head. Then I fly out of my bed and record it, at my home- studio. You can hear more of the new Bard/Wilkstrom collaboration on tracks "Love Came Crashing Down" & "Shoot From The Heart" from BWO's Big Science album.

Aug 7, 2009

2003- The Alcazar Line up of Andreas Tess and Annika joined by Magnus Carlsson (Barbados)to make a foursome- Was it any wonder they took this song from Abba's heyday 1976.'Funky Feet' was never released by Abba at the time, although its been called a 'Dancing Queen'# 2. Svenne & Lotta released it in the 70's. Then Alcazar made it their own with thiscover on the Alcazarized CDwhat a great boogie version..

Aug 3, 2009

The Rybak, as well as doing Stockholm Pride, Alexander found time to record a brand new song..check out the news report A Full HD version of this New Song (below)- it is to appear on Polish Fairytales CD as a Bonus track- We like it... and we want it?